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The yellow-lipped sea krait (Laticauda colubrina), also known as the banded sea krait or colubrine sea krait, is a species of venomous snake found in tropical Indo-Pacific oceanic waters. The snake has distinctive black stripes and a yellow snout, with a paddle-like tail for use in swimming.
English: Sea Snake eating Moray Eel, Fiji (Laticauda colubrina vs. Gymnothorax sp.). The banded snake krait (Laticauda colubrina) videotaped feeding on an eel (Gymnothorax sp.) in Fiji. Location was a patch reef off Pacific Harbour at a depth of about 30'. The krait had already killed the eel and was swallowing it when my wife, Marj Awai, found it.
Yellow-lipped sea krait, Laticauda colubrina. Most sea snakes are completely aquatic and have adapted to sea environments in many ways, the most characteristic of which is a paddle-like tail that has improved their swimming ability. [10] To a varying degree, the bodies of many species are laterally compressed, especially in the pelagic species.
[11] [12] Sea kraits are capable of diving up to 80 m deep in a single hunting trip. [13] They also have a very large hunting range, with at least 615 and perhaps up to 1660 km2 surface area for the Blue-lipped sea krait; 1380 and potentially up to 4500 km2 for the New Caledonian sea krait. [14]
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